Quotes with listening

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  • Bernard M. Baruch Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Lewis Thomas Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
    Lewis Thomas
    American arts (1913 - 1993)
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  • Bryan Greenberg My dad is from Queens. I remember visiting as a kid. My grandparents grew up here. All the actors I respected were coming out of here. All the hip-hop I was listening to - Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, Biggie, Wu Tang - was coming out of New York. I'm just into it.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Bill Kreutzmann My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.
    Bill Kreutzmann
    American drummer (1946 - )
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  • Edith Sitwell My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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  • David Copperfield Never stop listening to your audience.
    David Copperfield
    American magician (1956 - )
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Charles Dickens Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Dean Rusk One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.
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  • Bryant H. McGill One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Branford Marsalis One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Billy Corgan People always called The Cure gloomy, but listening to The Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave me comfort, and I think we're the same way.
    Corgan, William. Interview. Playboy (1997)
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Burning Spear People have been listening to Burning Spear for a long time now, and they know who I am and what I stand for. Yes, I do address many of the same ideas from album to album, adding only a little different flavor or coloring. Yes, the message has remained virtually the same because the issues haven't gone away yet.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Alistair Cooke People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • C. Neil Strait Prayer is talking with God and telling Him you love Him, conversing with God about all the things that are important in life, both large and small, and being assured that He is listening.
    C. Neil Strait
    American priest and author (1934 - 2003)
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  • Cass Sunstein Research shows that if people are talking and listening to like-minded others, they become more dogmatic, more unified, and more extreme. Personalized Facebook experiences are a breeding ground for misunderstanding and miscommunication across political lines and, ultimately, for extremism.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Sir John Lubbock Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • Ben Harper Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • William Arthur Ward Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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